ABSTRACT
The technology of recording and endless replay subject to a disciplined attention to turn-by-turn processes of talk-in-action allowed for the development of conversation analysis (CA). For CA, as in ethnomethodology order is not imposed by the analyst, nor is it to be derived from the analyst's generic, essentialist, idealist, or even empiricist imposition of concepts, categories, and theories. Sacks' CA directs us to examine the relationships between forms of talk and the interactive and reflexive accomplishment of recognisable social contexts and socially relevant purposes. Any present moment of work articulates extensive social relations which neither begin nor end in the experienced reality of the participants. Mundane, ordinary, every-day, and taken-for-granted talk-in-interaction can provide a very useful pathway for analysis of rather complex social scenes, whether these are courtrooms, police stations, or social work interviews. Talk is an activity of the body that speaks and hears.
